Cristian Baciu

Photographer
  
El Rocio
Location: Madrid
Nationality: Romanian
Biography: Freelance photographer actually living in Spain, in love with photojournalism and interested in a job/assignment that could take me traveling the world to meet strange new people and photograph them… even though a job/assignment will be enough... MORE
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El Rocio
Copyright Cristian Baciu 2024
Updated Jun 2013
Topics Community, Religion, Romeria de El Rocio, Spain, Virgin of El Rocio

Every year on the  second day of the Pentecost the people of Almonte ( Andalucia/Spain) celebrate a  procession in honor of the Virgin of El Rocio, the patron saint of Almonte.  The procession known as Romeria de El Rocio gather each year roughly a million pilgrims that arrive from throughout Spain and beyond. The pilgrimage is made by religious cofraternities on different routes depending on the home church of each cofraternity and can last from one day to a week. In the two days prior to the procession all the cofraternities present themselves at the The Hermitage of El Rocio(the keeping place of the patron saint)  forming a parade that in the years before lasted for almost 24 hours .In 2013 the parade was split into two days in order to make the presentation of the 113 cofraternities easier to organize.

Cada año en el segundo dia de Pentecostes los habitantes de Almonte celebran una procesion en honos a la padrona del pueblo, La Virgen de El Rocio, la patrona de pueblo de Almonte. La procesion, conocida como La Romeria de El Rocio junta alrededor de un millon de personas que vienen de toda España y alrededores. La peregrinacion se hace por las hermandades religiosas por distintas rutas dependindo del lugar de origen de las hermandades y puede durar ente un dia y una semana . En los dias previos a la Romeria de El Rocio, las distintas hermandades se presentan ante la Ermita de El Rocio donde se guarda la padrona del pueblo y entrlanzan un desfile que en los años anteriore podria duras hasta cerca de 24 horas. En 2013 la presentacion de las 113 hermandades ha sido repartida en dos dias para facilitar la organizacion del desfile.

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